He's certainly as good as I think he is.
Last season saw him turn in some insipid displays and conversely when it was too late on the last day, his on the edge, flying into tackles ("attempted halvings") were almost enough to see him walk. The former may be down to the Foran formula but the latter seemed to me to be the actions of a footballer out of time.
He's a shire horse of a player and that physicality is his thing. I'm sure that there will be games in which that feature will prevail.
Actually, he's got another feature that is wholly modern and he is certainly of the Andy Walker school of collapse if he feels a touch when he's in the box.
I hope he does it against Aberdeen so I can enjoy apoplexy from Richard Gordon on open all mics.
I'm trying to summon some seethe, but I rather suspect that this is a good piece of short term business for two clubs with differing survival strategies.